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AI Tools Beauty Brands Love For Optimizing Their Businesses
When Beauty Independent asked beauty brand founders in 2023 if they were using artificial intelligence for their businesses, some were all in, while others were more cautious. These...
Why Unilever Closed Ren Clean Skincare Instead Of Selling It
On Thursday last week, Unilever announced it made the “difficult decision to begin formal steps to close the Ren business” by the end of the third quarter this year. The company said, “A combination of internal factors,...
Juice Beauty Runs Out Of Juice. Has Clean Beauty, Too?
Juice Beauty has run out of juice. The clean beauty pioneer—started by Karen Behnke in 2005, it filed for a trademark on the term “clean beauty” a decade ago and launched National Clean Beauty Day in...
Marketing A New Beauty Product: What Indie Brands Really Spend
In a recent No Stupid Questions story, we checked in with 10 beauty consultants, including two who had opened and closed their own beauty and wellness brands, for estimates on what it costs for an...
American Beauty Brands Rethink International Expansion Strategies Amid Trump’s Trade War
President Donald Trump’s immigration, tariff and foreign policies have spiked Americans’ anxiety about traveling abroad, and cooled visits from travelers abroad into the United States. They’re not the only ones. Businesses are changing their views on...
Professional Or Personal?: Entrepreneurs On Whether Beauty Treatments Should Go On The Company Card
Some of the most eye-popping nuggets from the lawsuit filed on March 4 by former Thirteen Lune investors Relevance Ventures and Beauty Generations Fund against Thirteen Lune co-founder Nyakio Grieco, new ownership SNR Capital and others...
